By Alison Ascher Webber Digital literacy and second language instruction should be integrated, and not taught separately. This message was conveyed by researchers and practitioners from Minneapolis to Belgium at the recent Literacy Education and Second Language...

EdTech Partner Nell Eckersley gave adult educators a compelling “Call to Action” to go beyond consuming technology and become ambassadors for curating and creating information online. Read on for a synopsis of her keynote speech given at OTAN’s annual Technology...

By Alison Ascher Webber In the closing speech at COABE 2017, XPRIZE Foundation CEO Marcus Shingles gave a wake-up call to adult educators warning that the Fourth Industrial Revolution will change learning at speeds and in ways we could never imagine. Showing a chart...

By Leah Peterson On November 14, 2016 The EdTech Center at World Education hosted a panel at NCTN’s Effective Transitions in Adult Education annual conference, which is dedicated to strengthening adult education’s capacity to ensure that adult learners have access to...

By Chris Bourret Total Participant Techniques (TPTs), are ways to engage all your students at the same time with the subject matter you are teaching. According to William and Persida Himmele, (2014), experts in these techniques, TPTs help create a socially integrated...

By Steve Quann Whether reading with our class or watching a video together, a good practice is to stop at key intervals. There are a number of reasons why this is helpful for learning, such as checking for comprehension or chunking information to help hold it in...